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Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Monday AI coffee break.
Big week to kick off: Microsoft is pouring $2.5B into a brand-new AI engineering unit, OpenAI is floating a government stake worth tens of billions, and Square just made it possible to order dinner without ever leaving ChatGPT.
Let’s break it all down so you start the week ahead of the curve.
Grab your coffee!
(3-minute coffee break ☕)
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AI News around the world 🌍
🏢 Microsoft launched Frontier Company, a new unit backed by a $2.5B investment putting 6,000 experts on-site to build enterprise AI systems. (continue reading)
🏛️ OpenAI floated giving the Trump administration a 5% government stake, a roughly $42B slice tied to its planned IPO structure. (continue reading)
🚧 Cloudflare will block AI crawlers by default on ad-supported sites unless companies separate their search bots from training and agent bots by September. (continue reading)
🍽️ Square now lets restaurants accept orders placed directly inside ChatGPT and Claude with low fees and no setup, pushing AI agents into everyday commerce. (continue reading)
🎬 Google DeepMind and film studio A24 announced a first-of-its-kind research partnership to build AI tools that help filmmakers craft new creative workflows. (continue reading)
Trending AI Tools 🛠
🤖 Talkory.ai: Sends one question to five AI models at once (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok) and merges their replies into a single ranked consensus answer.
🌍 InterMIND: A video meeting platform with built-in real-time voice and chat translation across 100+ languages, so everyone speaks and hears their own language live.
🏠 Hausey: Turns a single room photo into 10 photorealistic remodel directions in under 60 seconds, with MLS-safe consistency checks for agents and designers.
📢 digiAd AI: Generates ad creatives and launches campaigns across Google, Meta, TikTok, and X from one dashboard, no design skills needed.
Tutorials 📝
Career & Capital 💼
AI Job Board
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🟢 NVIDIA: Senior Physics-Machine Learning Engineer, CAE (Santa Clara, CA) – $152,000 to $287,500 (view job)
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🏥 UnitedHealth Group: Principal AI Data Analyst (Remote) – $112,700 to $193,200 (view job)
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💳 Capital One: Senior Manager, Data Scientist, US Card – Generative AI Systems (McLean, VA) (view job)
Investments in AI
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💰 Together AI raised an $800M Series C at an $8.3B valuation to scale its open-source AI cloud. (link)
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🎬 TwelveLabs raised a $100M Series B co-led by NEA and NAVER Ventures to build agentic AI that reasons over large video archives. (link)
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🏭 8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures for Chamath Palihapitiya’s AI-native “Software Factory” for enterprise software. (link)
Prompt of the Week 🧠
Inbox Triage → Turn a 200-email backlog into a ranked action list in 5 minutes.
Prompt:
You are my executive inbox triage assistant. I'm going to paste a batch of emails (sender, subject line, and a 1-2 line preview of each). Your job is to turn this chaotic backlog into a ranked action list so I know exactly what to do next. Here is my context: - My role: [e.g. founder / head of sales / operations lead] - What matters most to me right now: [e.g. closing Q3 deals, hiring an engineer, keeping key customers happy] - People I always prioritize: [names/companies] - Things I can safely ignore or batch: [e.g. newsletters, automated notifications, cold pitches] For every email, sort it into exactly one of these four buckets: 1. RESPOND TODAY — needs a reply or decision from me within 24 hours (explain in one line why) 2. DELEGATE — someone else should handle this (suggest who, and draft a one-line handoff) 3. BATCH LATER — real but not urgent; group these by theme so I can clear them in one sitting 4. ARCHIVE / IGNORE — no action needed (say why in three words) Then give me: - A "Top 3 Do First" list, in priority order, with a one-sentence suggested action for each - Any email where I'm at risk of dropping the ball (missed deadline, unanswered important person, second follow-up) - For the 3 most important RESPOND TODAY items, a ready-to-send 2-3 sentence draft reply I can edit Ask me for the email batch now, and if anything is ambiguous about priority, ask before guessing.
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